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Ad fraud overwhelmingly victimizes companies that pay for ads many of whom are small businesses whereas the big companies like Google benefit because it means more volume.
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I think for bigger brands like Coca-Cola it becomes harder to measure. Because it’s not like you see an ad for Coke Zero on Facebook and order it right away, whereas you might if there was a new company with a cool new product. That’s why
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People underestimate the extent to which a bunch of opaque "anti-abuse" algorithms control things. Everyone is given a risk score and if you exceed an internal threshold they will never respond to your support requests until your
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People will literally give up their entire life savings in order to have someone guide them across miles of desert in 100 degree weather for just the chance to get into this country. Others are paid money, blackmailed, or they have ideolog
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It is easy to say that now. Serious criticism of Putin/modern Russia in the West really only began after the invasion of Georgia and was not even remotely mainstream until the early 2010s. America literally banned the export of crude
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You can find some pretty interesting improperly redacted documents all over PACER. Usually it's defense attorneys who don't realize that blacking out text in Adobe doesn't remove it rather than the government though. Here&#x
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I’m not Russian but it’s probably a combination of being a high IQ technically savvy country, having law enforcement that doesn’t care as long as the victims are foreign, and an opportunistic mindset many people got in the 90s.
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xss.is exploit.in if you don’t speak Russian you will probably have a hard time.
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On some of them I’ve noticed the text will overall have the same idea but a lot of the words will be different. I think some of these sites will translate it to Chinese and then translate it back to English to give it a lower similarity sc
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Exactly. Backpage took crypto for instance but ultimately if you are convicted of a crime and the government gives you a forfeiture order then it is a crime not to comply. Which is what they did to the tune of millions of dollars.
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Technically, payments which do not influence an outcome but merely speed up a decision are allowed. So bribing a minister to throw out all competing bids on a contract would be illegal but paying some clerk who’s dragging her feet on incor
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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alstom-pleads-guilty-and-agre... https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/novartis-ag-and-subsidiar... https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/e
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Removing rules against foreign bribery would ultimately result in flows of capital from countries with no rule of law to countries with rule of law. This is especially true if the corrupt officials spend their ill gotten gains in the West.
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The interesting thing is that what they did wouldn’t even be a crime if the doctors they paid didn’t work with Medicare patients. The anti kickback statute only applies to government funded health insurance programs. These same laws are a
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Similarly, the VTB bank case recently was interestingly. VTB was sued in some complaint about the downing of the MH-17 flight but despite OFAC providing an exemption for legal services the law firm they chose couldn't get any bank to p
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You’re right I misread that. I still think an overzealous prosecutor could find some violation, especially if p2p exchanges are used. They have charged people with operating an unlicensed money transmitter for merely being a customer of a
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I can assure you that most developers from the former Soviet Union would prefer USDC over their fake local currencies any day of the week.
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In the worst case your funds would be frozen for a couple months then you’d get a letter saying we are closing your account for compliance reasons and attached would be a cashiers check for the balance of your account. Then they’d file a S
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> you reside in Russia, China, or Canada, you might have a hard time Interestingly, the opposite is true. The countries with the most restrictions (officially China, Russia, Argentina, Nigeria etc) have the most crypto activity, it’s ju
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40 deposits of $9900 is a felony called structuring and is not what we are talking about here. Go to p2p.binance.com or Karachi or Dubai or Hong Kong and you will find an ecosystem of people who routinely buy and sell 7/8 figures wort
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I was reading and I think 18 USC 1957 may be a problem. > Whoever, in any of the circumstances set forth in subsection (d), knowingly engages or attempts to engage in a monetary transaction in criminally derived property of a value great
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The sanctions technically only forbid future interactions with Tornado Cash contracts. However the compliance employees would get a note from Chainalysis saying that this guy received a bunch of ETH that was indirectly sourced from Tornado
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Banks only report >$10000 cash deposits/withdrawals to the IRS. They do not report checks wires or anything else unless they are using them as part of a suspicious activity report. Gifts from foreigners aren’t subject to gift tax.
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> It’s not a shadow government if the laws and policy are public. You can read all of the laws. This is not really true. The BSA says banks have to maintain an "adequate AML program" and policies to "reasonably know your
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It could be called the fintech compliance cycle. They start out with a single compliance officer (who is equipped with not much more than the OFAC list) and no identification requirements other than name and email. Then they get lots of c
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In a world of free association Stripe would probably be more willing to do business with "high risk" companies because they could charge them substantially higher fees. The government directly and indirectly tries to discourage b
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There has been an explosion in expenses without any substantial improvement to the site or really anything that the people who actually use Wikipedia would notice. Is there any reason why they needed $50 million more dollars in 2021 than
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> because its a pioneer here In what? Bureaucracy? > EU is not at fault here. They could try promoting innovation and producing tech companies of their own instead of devoting substantial amounts of energy to squeezing their more succ
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The thing these Treasury department types don't really want to admit is that Tether has done more for dollarization than just about any branch of government in the past 20 years.
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There is this idea of “dual criminality” that makes those examples more fair from the American perspective. For instance emissions tampering is illegal in Europe too, the same of which can not be said for their set of increasingly arcane a

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